Tag: Mayhem
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Nietzsche, or perhaps not?
On the back cover of Bathory’s 1991 album Twilight Of The Gods, we find a quotation signed “Friedrich Nietzsche 1871”. Through releases such as this, Bathory had a major influence on the emergence of the Norwegian black metal scene in the late 1980s and early 1990s. It is likely that many of those who listened…
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The land beyond the forests
On that day, April 8, 1991, in the house they rented in Krokstad outside Oslo, when Mayhem vocalist Per Yngve “Pelle/Dead” Ohlin (1969–1991), after attempting to take his own life with knives in the woods, put a shotgun to his face and pulled the trigger, he was wearing a white T-shirt that read “I love…